The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-18

other road learned what was going on.
They then ordered a locomotive n a
force of men to the scene and attempted
to stop the work. 1.-THE crossing was
a sort Of temporary affair, intended
to establish the legal right OF the De-
catur people, and the Big Four people
tried to demolish 1t by running a loco
motive upon it. The locomotive was
thrown from the track, and while the
Big Four gang was engaged in replace
ing it, the Decatur people practically
completed another temporary crossing.
At a late hour the Big -Four people had
the crossing blockaded with a locomo-
tive and several freight cars"
The steamer Alameda, Which
arrived at San Francisco on the 18th,
from Australia. brought news of the
death, in Sydney, OF William E. Sher-
idan, the American ~tTagedlan. On
the night of May 18th, while sitting
as a spectator in a Sydney theatre,
he was stricken with a falnttng fit and
never recovered consciousness. At 3
O'Clock on the morning of May Is he
died. Mrs. Sheridan, who had been
playing an engagement at Adelaide,
arrived at Sydney just two hours after
her husbands death. His health was
poor all the time he vas in Australia.
Mr.. Sheridan was born in Boston on
June lst, 1889, He appeared on the
stage at the age of 10, served three
years in the Union army during the
war, was married in Boston in 1864,
and was leading man at Pixies Opera
House until 1t was burned, In 1866.
He was for several years a supporter of
years OF his life appeared frequently as
a star"
The house of u farmer named Ed
wards, In Menota, South Manitoba,
was burned on the evening Of the 18th,
and three children, aged from sever to
twelve years, persisted in the flames.
james Lotus and Edward Rogers,
each IL years of age, were drowned on
the 18th, while bathing at Great Bar
rington, Massachusetts.
The town Of Trenton, Missouri,
and its neighborhood have been infested
for a week past by swarms of insects
apparently identical with the Spanish
fly of the dlspensatory. They devouI
vegetation and blister human beings.
"Fully a thousand people in Trenton
are at present nursing blisters caused
by this insect, and lights in residences
at night have been almost abandoned
for fear OF attracting the poisonous In
sect"
Governor Torres, of Sonora, has
issued a proclamation offering a reward
of $500 for the head of each hostile
Apache Indian.
AT Savannah, Missouri, on the
18th, Jasper Rhodes killed G. N. Sour
lock, his brother-in-law, In a quarrel
over a trihe. At De Leon, Texas, on
the morning of the 18th, j. T. Allison
shot and killed his son-in-law, Henry
Scott, during a quarrel over family
matters. Scott also shot Allison, who
Is in a critical condition. Captain A.
j: Landman was murdered near Yazoo
City, Mississippi, on the evening of the
18th, by two brothers named &c lum,
in revenge for his having insisted that
they owed him a balance of rs cents on
a debt.
The United States Treasurer re-
ports that the total ciTculatlon-coin
and cn~rrency-on May 3lst, 1887, was
81, 297 ,256, $50, being a net increase of
S58, 500, 545, as compared with the cir
culation May 3Ist, 1886. The increase
by items was as follows: Gold coin,
Sl6.e79 944; standard silver dollars,
s., 463, 3S4; subsidiary silver, 81, 346 S42;
gold certificates, $40, $40, 952; silver
certificates, $40. $50. 199, and United
States notes, 81, 521, 722; total, SS7, 0O9,-
CAB, which amount was reduced to
$58, sec, 545 by a decrease of S28 ,442, 499
in the circulation of national bank
notes.
The First National Bank of Alli-
ance, Ohio, was authorized on the
18th, with a capital of $4,000
Five men were killed and a number
injured by an explosion of dynamite at
the lnman mines, four miles from
Chattanooga, on the evening of the
18th.
Panama advices TO the 4th inst.
report Il landslide or a farm in Con-
coTdia, which killed 16 persons-Pedro
A Restrepo, his wife, nine children
and five servants.
Will a number of men were ex-
aiming a charge which had failed in a
quarry near Leesport, Penna.. on the
afternoon Of the 18th, it exploded, in
juring three men, two of them, nnmed
Francis Z. Kaufman and Philip
Schaeffer, fatally. at Olean, New
York, on the 18th, Lemuel Hat was
killed and several others were slightly
injured by an explosion OF nitro
glycerine at the works OF the Gala
CHER Torpedo Company. During a
game of base ball at Marblehead,
Massachusetts, on the afternoon OF the
18th, Smith Billings and Joseph
Thompson, while running to catch a
ball, cOllided with great force Billings
hal his frontal bone crushed in and
was terribly gashed on one side of the
head, and his condition is critical.
Thompson was also badly injured and
was insensible at last accounts.
There was a small riot on the af-
ternoon OF the 18th, at a picnic of
about 2000 New York Anarchists at
Oak Cliff Park, in Hudson county,
New Jersey. While the festivities were
at their height, a man named VIM,
who tried to take a short cut through
the park, was savagely beaten and
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